Chris Cote

Director's commentary.

You could have saved it till after the show.

Commercial break before the show tomorrow.

But good that you just told the audience that we should have cut Sam off three minutes early.

I appreciate that.

I mean, they were fighting under really suspect conditions.

Look, I do have to give Dana White credit on this because he did this during the pandemic as well when no one could get his business up and running.

They did something that I never imagined UFC would ever be able to do in any way in making themselves this kind of mainstream.

They've done it corruptly.

They've done it with an alliance to Trump that's unseemly that we will talk about with Luke Thomas here in a second.

And I'm not really...

I'm not bothered by sort of the optics of whatever you think is the classlessness of having cage fights at the center of our government.

Washington is a swamp.

They fought outdoors.

That's not good for the fighters.

They fought in the heat, mosquitoes, rain.

None of that is good for the fighters.

But they pulled off an event that is really hard to pull off.

And I don't believe a lot of people understand just how hard it was to do all of that.

and the fights being good.